Yankee Town, Southern City : Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg

by Tripp, Steven E.

• ISBN13: 9780814782378
• ISBN10: 081478237X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order?Yankee Town, Southern Cityexamines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping events--Secession, Civil War, Black Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By looking at life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Yankee Town, Southern City	p. 6
Religion, Rum, and Race: Lower-Class Life in Antebellum Lynchburg	p. 48
The Many Battles of Lynchburg	p. 85
"These Troublesome Times": Rebuilding Lynchburg after the War	p. 163
"To Crown Our Hearty Endeavors": Religion, Race, and Class, 1865-1872	p. 205
"The Mauling Science": Black and White Violence and Vigilance, 1865-1872	p. 224
Epilogue: Lynchburg's Centennial and Beyond	p. 250
Appendixes	p. 257
Notes	p. 275
Selected Bibliography	p. 319
Index	p. 337
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